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by nonbirithm 1738 days ago
I copied the following from one of my other comments since it's a lot of text, but these are the reasons I moved off Firefox for Android (Fenix) to Brave. Also, Chromium-based browsers for Android have none of the following issues.

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- Scrolling up on Google search's results page and some other pages is not registered half the time, and sometimes triggers pull-to-refresh instead

- Scrolling up inside an input box while the page is at the top of the screen causes unintentional pull-to-refresh

- Bitwarden autofill is not registered unless you kill and restart the app after logging in

- You can't save images that require cookies to be passed to the request, such as under DDoS protected pages

- Links will sometimes redirect to about:blank unless you go back and click them again

- Most recently visited page is not restored when closing and reopening the app, even though it's saved to the history (closed as wontfix)

- Uses large amounts of memory, causing Android share actions to be silently killed due to OOM unless you quickly kill the app right after sending them

- Closing a tab and clicking "Undo" in the popup sends the tab all the way to the top of the list, instead of its original position (inconvenient if you have a large number of tabs open)

- Frequently loses open tabs in memory, even within ten seconds of navigating to another tab

- Startup time is noticably slower than Brave, taking at least a few seconds to show the UI and begin loading the page. It isn't much, but it impacts the user experience every time you start the app again.

1 comments

Are you sure you're talking about Firefox? For example it doesn't even have pull to refresh so you can't trigger it unintentionally :)

I use it all the time now because it supports uBlock Origin and Dark Reader and I think it's good. And I have all my bookmarks on Firefox sync. I have some minor issues with it like the tab list that doesn't always scroll right but they're not deal-breakers.